The Dart League King

Keith Morris is one of my favorite fiction writers and The Dart League King is his best book yet. In his Idaho you can see the rest of America, in his Idahoans the rest of us Americans: funny, grave, profane, tender, violent, full of longing for something and someone we don't really deserve and will do almost anything to get anyway. I am in awe of this novel, this novelist. -- Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England What a testament it is to a splendid novelist's powers to pitch-perfectly create a small-town dart league and in doing so not only illuminate the zeitgeist but some universal truths to boot. The Dart League King is a nine-darter of a novel and Keith Lee Morris is a writer whose books I have promised myself never to skip. -- Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Sign me up as a member of the Keith Lee Morris fan club. His characters are as real, fallible, and surprising as anyone I've ever met, and his novel has all the textures of real life: precarious, tender, and utterly engrossing. -- Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners I would give my throwing arm to write a novel as tightly woven and fast and suspenseful and ultimately heartbreaking as The Dart League King. Keith Lee Morris has created an edgy, perfect masterpiece, with more damn life in it than 99% of the books I've ever read. People will be reading and talking about The Dart League King for years to come. I'd wager a twelve-pack on it. -- Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff Morris is heir to the Richard Ford of Rock Springs ; he has that rare gift of writing truthfully about people we know and care for. -- William Giraldi, The Believer The Dart League King is no lullaby. This chilling novel pulled me right in and through. I see it as a mystery--told in reverse--a who-will-do-it as opposed to a whodunit, and Morris is perfectly suited to th